In message <20050705003115.GA497@rezrov.net>, Christopher SEKIYA writes:
>On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 10:23:45AM +0530, Karthik Subramanian wrote:
>
>> >siside0:0:0: lost interrupt
>> >type: ata tc_bcount: 512 tc_skip: 0
>> >siside0:0:0: lost interrupt
>> >type: ata tc_bcount: 512 tc_skip: 0
>
>ioapic interrupts are not being routed correctly.
>
>You need to use an installation kernel that was compiled one of the following
>ways:
>
>* with ioapic support commented out (suboptimal), or
>* with ACPI and PCI_INTR_FIXUP options defined.
>
>Frank, now that the cdboot code is in-tree, would it make sense to turn on
>the ACPI fixups in INSTALL and GENERIC?
>-- 

A few years ago, I saw exactly those symptoms from my CD drive if I did 
have ACPI on.  Is that problem solved?  (I no longer have the machine 
on which it was most reproducible.)

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb